Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §8103, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 126, §2, is amended to read:

1. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Public Safety or the commissioner's designee.

Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §8105, sub-§5, ¶E, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 126, §2, is amended to read:

E. Answers to the following questions:

(1) Are you currently under indictment or information for a crime for which the possible penalty is imprisonment for in excess of a period equal to or exceeding one year?

(2) Have you ever been convicted of a crime for which the possible penalty exceeded was imprisonment for a period equal to or exceeding one year in prison?

(3) Are you a fugitive from justice?

(4) Are you an unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or any other drug?

(5) Have you been adjudged mentally defective or been committed to a mental institution within the past 5 years? or

(6) Are you an illegal alien?

Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §8105, sub-§7-A, ¶A, as amended by PL 1987, c. 602, §2, is further amended to read:

A. Has been employed for consideration for a minimum of one year 1,200 hours within a one-year period as an investigative assistant possessing a valid license issued by the commissioner;

Sec. 4. 32 MRSA §8113, first ¶, as repealed and replaced by PL 1985, c. 207, §2 and as amended by PL 1999, c. 547, Pt. B, §78 and affected by §80, is further amended to read:

The commissioner may, after a notice of an opportunity for hearing in conformance with the provisions of the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter IV, refuse to issue or renew a license. The District Court may suspend or revoke the license of any person licensed under this chapter. The following shall be are grounds for an action to